Maternity suspenders



Aug. 2, 1949'. P. E. RosENBLATT MATERNITY susrENnEs Filed Nov. 19, 1946rraf/V Patented Aug. 2, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MATERNITYSUSPENDERS Pauline E. Rosenblatt, Cleveland, Ohio Application November19, 1946, Serial No. 710,871

1 Claim.

This invention relates in general to new and useful improvements ingarment supporters and more specifically to maternity garment supportersconstructed to support wearing apparel, such as hose, without discomfortto a prospective mother.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of an improvedmaternity garment supporter which, in addition to properly supportingwearing apparel effects a gentle steadying pressure on the back of awearer and comforts against strain during confinement.

Such a general object of the invention is attained by a garmentsupporter embodying looped portions to be carried by the shoulders of awearer and an elastic back supporting shield member of substantiallytrapezoidal shape adapted to yieldingly contact and gently press againstthe wearers back when the attaching means of the garment supporter aresecured to the wearing apparel.

Another object of the invention therefore is the provision of animproved maternity garment supporter embodying looped shoulder portionsfor the shoulders of a wearer and yielding, substantially trapezoidallyshaped back shield means connecting the looped shoulder portions andpositioned to contact the lower back portion.

A further object of the invention is the provision of an improvedmaternity garment supporter embodying looped shoulder portions for theshoulders of a wearer and a yielding, substantially trapezoidally shapedreenforced back shield member reenforced by a pretensioned reenforcingmeans and positioned to connect the looped shoulder portions whilecontacting and yieldingly supporting the area around the twelfththoracic vertebra of the spinal column of the wearer.

In addition, the invention has certain other marked superiorities whichradically distinguish it from presently known structures. Theseimprovements or superiorities embodying certain novel features ofconstruction are clearly set forth in the following specication and theappended claim; and a preferred form of embodiment of the invention ishereinafter shown with reference to the accompanying drawing formingpart of the specication.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a side perspective View of the maternity garment supportershown applied to a female figure;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged rear perspective view of the maternity garmentsupporter;

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is an edge view of the parts of the reenforced back shield memberprior to their assembly.

Referring now in detail to the drawing, the maternity garment supportershown therein embodies two elastic, looped shoulder strips 2 and 3 whichhave their rear portions 4 and 5 attached to the upper part 6 of anelastic shield member 1 shaped to substantially trapezoidal outline.Shoulder strips 2 and 3 have the ends of their front portions 8 and 9attached to V-shaped connecting members I0 and Il which by arms I2 andI4 are secured to the lower corner portions I5 and I6 of elastic shieldmember 'I' and have attached to their vertex portions I'I and I8 pairsof elastic garment attaching members I9 and 20 provided with garmentattaching means 2| of customary construction.

Elastic trapezoidally shaped shield member 'I of the maternity garmentsupporter which functions as back support for the wearer is made ofrubberized heavy material, has at its top portion a marginal,non-elastic area 22 preventing spreading of such top portion and issubstantially wider at its bottom portion than at its top portion, allfor the epurpose of effecting gentle, steadying pressure on the back ofa wearer. The shield member is positioned so as to contact the areaopposite the twelfth thoracic vertebra of the spinal column of thewearer and is preferably reenforced by one or more stays 23 of whaleboneor other suitable material covered by a lining 24 sewed to the body ofmember 'I at 25. The stay or stays 23 are preferably precurved in adirection opposite to their curvature when shield member I contacts theback of the wearer, an arrangement which pretensions the stay or Staysand increases the supporting and steadying eiect of the shield member.

Having thus described my invention what I claim is:

A maternity garment supporter embodying elastic shoulder straps, anelastic back supporting shield member of heavy, rubberized materialincluding a non-elastic top portion, said shield member havingtrapezoidal outline, the nonelastic top portion being substantiallynarrower than the bottom edge of the elastic portion and having thenon-elastic top portion connected to the rear ends of said straps,yielding garment supporting means, and a pair of V-shaped connectingmeans, each of said connecting means having its vertex secured to therespective garment supporting means and its diverging arms attached tothe front end of a shoulder strap and a bottom corner of the bottom edgeof said elastic shield member.

PAULINE E. ROSENBLATT.

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